I didn't start using computers until I was 30 and didn't have a computer job until I was about 38. Yet I was called a geek by people I worked with. I found it ever so odd. But I'd been a thinker my whole life even though I had dropped out of college to live on a kibbutz in Israel. And there I found Atlas Shrugged. I didn't become John Galt or rich or much of anything else that critics might expect; I did not even become a libertarian. But in that book I found sense which I had not found in my christian upbringing. Ayn Rand says, and I believe it is the core of what she says, that it is a moral imperative for human beings to use their brains.

You are right on the money. I find that most people find their brain a source of despair.